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Abortion

We should be just as concerned about women’s safety as we are about their rights. I’ve been stunned by the comments that some women have to pay the price of death so that women can have abortions. Wendy Wright

The Bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong. Rick Warren

I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is “Abortion”, because it is a war against the child… A direct killing of the innocent child, “Murder” by the mother herself… And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love… And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts… Mother Teresa

Abortion is too often an atonement for the consequences of immorality, the sins of the parents. Ed Cole

No human being…is ever conceived outside God’s will or ever conceived apart from God’s image. Life is a gift from God created in His own image. John MacArthur

How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb? Chuck Baldwin

Just because Congress passes a law and says it’s all right to do a certain thing does not mean that it’s all right to do it. Abortion is still just as wrong today as it was the first day of January, 1973. Shelton Smith

Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live. Randy Alcorn

The prochoice position always overlooks the victim’s right to choose. The women don’t choose rape. The blacks didn’t choose slavery. The Jews didn’t choose the ovens. And the babies don’t choose abortion. Randy Alcorn

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention about 43% of all American women will have at least one abortion by the age 45 (p. 18). 20% of these are performed on teenagers (p. 28). 50% are performed on women who have had at least one abortion already (p. 31). Every third baby conceived and viable in this country is killed by abortion (p. 35). John Piper

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently. John Piper

The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years. John Piper

The dismembering of a human being routinely in 30 minutes on an outpatient bases – or any other way – is barbaric. Four blocks from our church all year long – like churches within smelling distance of Auschwitz or Dachau or Buchenwald. John Piper

Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted. Even if one rates an unborn child less than a full-blown person, doesn’t the unborn child rate slightly higher than vegetation? Ann Coulter

Since we have become culturally dispassionate regarding abortion–and the reality that living humans are killed largely for the sake of convenience–it is small wonder that contemporary Big Brother would also target the elderly. Jonathan Falwell

The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts–a child–as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the dependent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. Mother Teresa

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I’ve noticed everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan

No one is pro-abortion. Barack Obama

The religious leaders of the day had written the script for the Messiah. When Jesus announced he was the Messiah, the Pharisees and others screamed at him, “There is no Jesus in the Messiah script. Messiahs do not hang out with losers. Our Messiah does not break all the rules, Our Messiah does not question our leadership or threaten our religion or act so irresponsibly. Our Messiah does not disregard his reputation, befriend riffraff, or frequent the haunts of questionable people.” Jesus’ reply? “This Messiah does”! Do you see why Christianity is called “good news”? Christianity proclaims that it is an equal-opportunity faith, open to all, in spite of the abundance of playwrights in the church who are more than anxious to announce, “There is no place for you in Christianity if you [wear an earring/have a tattoo/drink wine/have too many questions/look weird/smoke/dance/haven’t been filled with the Spirit/aren’t baptized/swear/have pink hair/are in the wrong ethnic group/have a nose ring/have had an abortion/are gay or lesbian/are too conservative or too liberal]. Mike Yaconelli

If a mother can kill her own child – what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me – there is nothing between. Mother Teresa

The courageous strong stand up for and protect the vulnerable; the cowardly weak see them as disposable. Donna Schoenrock

If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted. Christy Leigh Stewart

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. ‘Here’s what no one tells you,’ she said. ‘When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.’ She looked up at me. ‘You can’t win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don’t have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn’t do the wrong thing. But I don’t feel like I did the right thing, either. Jodi Picoult

I certainly supported a woman’s right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact. Ann B. Ross

I pretended it was nothing. That day I told you about my baby, and why I had had an abortion. It would have damaged other lives. I had killed my own real baby ten years before, but it remains my living child, and will always be so. It is worse when there is no grave. I wanted you to recognize its existence. No one else does, and that is what I cannot bear. Sarah Ferguson